RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 10 minutes ago, Brian Harrap said: You'll not have seen the new hoist then? Tempting as it might be to sneak up to your house for a view of the new hoist, I have so far decided against that course of action. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 I can't see a third rail so I assume it's running on battery power like some of the new Midland Metro trams! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2020 8 minutes ago, HSB said: I can't see a third rail so I assume it's running on battery power like some of the new Midland Metro trams! Hybrid is cool right now. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Verlassen Sie den Zug nicht im Dunkeln. Andrei 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted June 4, 2020 Author Share Posted June 4, 2020 16 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: Tempting as it might be to sneak up to your house for a view of the new hoist, I have so far decided against that course of action. The new hoist is of course at present in the locked down position. B 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2020 You're behind the times Brian, we've gone from lock down to cock up! Mike. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2020 15 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Hybrid is cool right now. Caught in a polar air stream, no doubt? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2020 7 hours ago, Captain Kernow said: Caught in a polar air stream, no doubt? While I am caught in a polar moment of inertia. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted June 6, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) I saved a couple of locos from my ill fated P76 engineering layout with a view to offering them a new home on QUAI:87. One that is happily trundling about the QUAI's is the Sentinel diesel. This may be one of the few locos that has run on three differing trackwork technologies, having started off as course scale 00 (tinplate) then converted to P76 (P4 in old money) and then back to P87. Still with me? The last change was the easiest. I wonder why 4mm modellers don't just accept the 16.5mm track gauge (which at normal viewing looks just fine) and just stick protoscale wheels on stock so as to enjoy scale flangeways. Dangerous talk I know, but it would save all that faffing about building etched chassis. (What's the plural of chassis?) Looks like the Sentinel could do with a bit of route learning around the docks. A 4mil loco on a P87 layout - don't even mention it - I'm having fun in lock up. Baron. Edited June 6, 2020 by Brian Harrap Brain working slow 21 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted June 10, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2020 A chance comment by Re6/6 of this parish regarding the loco shed on QUAI:87 (He'd come across a lookalike) prompts me to share with you the prototype shed that inspired the one I built for the layout. It's the one at Le Crotoy, France. Many of the structures on QUAI:87, however unlikely they may seem, have a real life parenthood somewhere or other. Baron 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted June 28, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2020 The curved warehouse/factory was styled after one I came across in Bristol. Ok so mine doesn't curve around a river bank (might have been a waterway there at sometime I suppose) but that didn't stop me having a go at it. B 23 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 This one from a building in Gauda 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted July 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 06/06/2020 at 16:41, Brian Harrap said: (What's the plural of chassis?) Chassees? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted July 23, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 23, 2020 Sometimes when I'm wandering around the Quays I get lucky and something unexpected turns up. 18 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Its all Double Dutch to me, but nevertheless very nice. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 On 06/06/2020 at 08:41, Brian Harrap said: I saved a couple of locos from my ill fated P76 engineering layout with a view to offering them a new home on QUAI:87. One that is happily trundling about the QUAI's is the Sentinel diesel. This may be one of the few locos that has run on three differing trackwork technologies, having started off as course scale 00 (tinplate) then converted to P76 (P4 in old money) and then back to P87. Still with me? The last change was the easiest. I wonder why 4mm modellers don't just accept the 16.5mm track gauge (which at normal viewing looks just fine) and just stick protoscale wheels on stock so as to enjoy scale flangeways. Dangerous talk I know, but it would save all that faffing about building etched chassis. (What's the plural of chassis?) Looks like the Sentinel could do with a bit of route learning around the docks. A 4mil loco on a P87 layout - don't even mention it - I'm having fun in lock up. Baron. Search for my "00-P" RM WEB topic talking about my actual working 00-P activity and all the hysteria and even conspiracy theory it raised. Ditto for making accurate UK track parts actually to 3.5 mm scale. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 33 minutes ago, Andy Reichert said: Search for my "00-P" RM WEB topic talking about my actual working 00-P activity and all the hysteria and even conspiracy theory it raised. Ditto for making accurate UK track parts actually to 3.5 mm scale. Andy Hello Andy, I'd love to read all about 00-p but I can't find the entry Baron Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Zero Gravitas Posted July 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2020 48 minutes ago, Brian Harrap said: Hello Andy, I'd love to read all about 00-p but I can't find the entry Baron Baron, it’ here: It’s 00-P (zero zero - P) ZG. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 48 minutes ago, Brian Harrap said: Hello Andy, I'd love to read all about 00-p but I can't find the entry Baron https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/100363-00-p-a-track-and-wheel-compromise-standard-with-a-lot-of-potential-and-practical-support/ It started off OK for a page or so, but then the derision took over. Andy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 3 hours ago, Andy Reichert said: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/100363-00-p-a-track-and-wheel-compromise-standard-with-a-lot-of-potential-and-practical-support/ It started off OK for a page or so, but then the derision took over. Andy Thanks - I'll check it out in the morning. B Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 12 hours ago, Brian Harrap said: Thanks - I'll check it out in the morning. B I'm glad I left it until this morning. My head hurts. Reckon I could have built another layout in the time it took me to plough through that lot. B 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Serves you right!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brian Harrap Posted October 29, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2020 Have you noticed how scruffy Interfrigo wagons got to look in their declining years? 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Harrap Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 Another lockdown - It's making ZOB feel rather blue Baron 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSB Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Looks like you've been doing a bit of work on the stealth factory, Brian! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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